Social interactions: pre and post social networking era

<p>Facebook, with more than 100 thousand active users is the top most social networking website. It was launched in 2004 and with the monthly grow of 178% in 2008 and in 2012 it had more than 1 billion users in other words 1 in every 7 person in the world has a registered Facebook account. Social networking websites have drastically changed our social life, and turned people into machines, machines that don’t feel only “like”, “follow”, and “chat” on the Internet. The internet has changed people’s lives dramatically and it has altered the way people interact with each other.</p> <p>Not so long ago people used to meet on a daily basis, they were interacting with each other i.e. when someone needed something, when someone were in a situation in which they needed help, others would help them. People had human behavior, human sympathy, and human interactions. In the past you did not know what your high school friend whom your brother dated briefly was doing let alone her relationship status but now you can see her pictures with her fiancé in Rio de Janeiro. What social networking websites have done is to simply make more connections but less connected people. Back in ten years ago, people used to gather in the parties, soiree, etc. they used to talk, they used to make jokes, laugh and gather around but after the emergence of social networks people only look at their phones, what they really care about is their followers on social networks and what they look for is hashtags in their apps, that’s what they’ve become and that’s what we are doing.</p> <p>Today there more people looking at their phone than people reading books, or writing or both put on together. The last thing that they see is their phone and the first thing that they say “Good Morning” to, is their PHONE! We don’t do parties anymore, it is just a bunch of silly looking crowd looking at their phone, laughing and having a good time at the party! People only sympathy by a text message or a phone call nobody will be there when you need them, nobody will help you, nobody will physically be there. Physical interactions have given their place to phone calls or even Short messages and nobody even cares.</p> <p>In the near future people will be using implanted mobile devices that will let them to use the Internet instantly. People may get more socially divert than they are now or they may get more socially awkward with that being said we have a lot to consider and not much time to do so.</p> <p>The social networking websites are a big effect on our social life. They might be good but what they have done is nothing to neglect. What will happen in future is sure unpredictable bud we should be careful about it.